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JJ 07/70: Wayne Shorter – Super Nova
On this weird 'space music' record Shorter plays only soprano saxophone which he has been concentrating on of late. He seems to have patterned...
JJ 07/60: Dave Brubeck – Time Out
The reason for the title of this album is that Brubeck has used time signatures other than 4/4. Steve Race's...
JJ 07/60: In My Opinion – Joe Newman
This is one of a series of taped interviews with musicians, who are asked to give a snap opinion on a set of records...
JJ 07/60: Jazz On A Summer’s Day
He’s seen Citizen Kane, and lets you know it: Sweatdripping closeups, shots from odd angles, shots right into the floodlights, shots in pitiless sunlight, shots...
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The Windisch Quartet: Chaos
Laura Clark listened to an experimental German quartet blending a hint of Kraftwerk with the rhythmic punch of Jackie McLean
Obituary: Simon Fell
Rhodri Davies has written a personal appreciation of bassist Simon Fell, who died from a recently diagnosed advanced cancer on 28 June:
Simon was a...
JJ 06/90: The Mike Clark Sextet – Give The Drummer Some
Clark established a reputation with his improvising in Herbie Hancock's hard-funk bands of the mid-seventies. Here, on his first album as leader, he has...
JJ 06/90: Gary Burton – Reunion
Jazzmen are so unpredictable. Writing on the sleeve of his 1988 Times Like These album. Burton said 'I still don't feel that I'm going...
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JJ 06/80: Rollins reflects
"What is he doing? One of the most influential of all tenor saxophonists playing Isn't She Lovely or something called Disco Monk. It's just...
JJ 06/80: Dexter Gordon Quartet at Ronnie Scott’s
As Eddie Gladden got into the 12th minute of his drum solo, I began to develop the uneasy suspicion that Dexter Gordon and pianist...
JJ 06/80: Ran Blake & Jeanne Lee – The Newest Sound Around
This appeared on American RCA almost 20 years ago and scarcely anyone except Gunther Schuller and me took any notice. Not that this stopped...
JJ 06/80: To Be Or Not To Bop – Memoirs, Dizzy Gillespie
After reading this book anyone might be excused for dismissing Gillespie as a foul-mouthed megalomaniac much given to personal violence against adversaries. Band leaders...
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